Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1942 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943

N PAYMENT E British-American air raid on Nazi industries at Lille {was of unprecedented magnitude, for a daylight attack, but even so it was only a token of more powerful visitations to come. We.lost a few big bombers. But these inescapable casualties; considered in the light of the presumed damage w Lille, are very small in comparison with losses in the landing at Dieppe. Allied airpower. may ‘be many months in voalizing

anything like its maximum potentialities against the continent, The sooner that maximum can be approached, the sooner it will be demonstrated whether or not airpower

® alone can do the material and psychological damage to the

Nazis that its champions | insist—and we devoutly hope—

MR. MORGENTHAU STRIKING OUT

AS the big tax bill rolls along to passage, on every issue where the finance committee is on one side and Secre-

tary Morgenthau on the other the senate has voted with the

committee and against Mr. Morgenthau. The secretary didn’t like the 5 per cent victory tax on . gross income, but the senate adopted it. He didn’t want the social security tax frozen, but the senate froze it, 50 to 35. He didn’t approve the amendment giving the congressional taxing committees, without the secretary’s leave, direct access to information in the treasury department. . But the senate approved the amendment, 74, to 10. In handling this bill, Mr. Morgenthau apparently has managed to antagonize a majority in each house of congress, and Democrats as well as Republicans. He has done it by acting as though he were more interested in keeping " alive political controversies than in settling fiscal problems. He has done it by offering a new half-baked scheme every few weeks, causing delay in consideration of the tax bill, and then blaming congress. for not acting with more speed. His latest irvitating offense was announcing that he had a new six-billion-dollar tax bill in the making, even before action had been completed on the pending bill.

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® = # x FEW days ago we remarked that Mr. Morgenthau "seemed to be encroaching on the jurisdiction of Eco-

nomic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes, by announc-,

ing his new six-billion tax program without consulting Mr. Byrnes and even before Mx. Byrnes had had time to get his seat warm. Since then we have been given to understand ‘that the treasury’s position is that Mr. Byrnes has no jurisdiction over taxation and borrowing policies. = ° If that is true, then it is high time that Mr. Byrnes or someone else be given such authority and responsibility.

Mr. Byrnes’ job is to stabilize wages, prices and living costs.

All he can do in those fields will not prevent inflation unless the government's fiscal affairs are brought into line. And it is all too obvious by now that Mr. Morgenthau i is not the : ‘man to bring them into line.

How BIG? HOW. FAST?

THE government must decide soon how large an army it > intends to raise and how rapidly that army shall be built up. . So says Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the WPB, apd he i is entirely right. Until that decision is made there can be no intelligent master plan for apportioning the nation’s available manpower among the armed forces, the war industries, agriculture and civilian industries. Until there is ‘an intelligent master plan the manpower problem will - become more and more muddled. Elmer Davis, director of war information, has told pngress that public confusion about manpower is in danger

of becoming as great as public confusion about rubber was |

before the Baruch committee reported. Mr. Davis says e has urged the various government agencies concerned | 0 agree on a statement of policy which he can -explain |, 0 0 the country, But the questions which are the keys to an understand- | le policy cannot; be ‘answered by civilian agencies or by | congress or even by a Baruch committee. Only the presint, assisted by his military advisers, can and should ermine how many men it is necessary to take into the services and the rate at which they shall be

. Given time, as Mr. ‘Nelson says, our productive facil‘can equip a 10,000,000-man army and maintain it in

De mission, The draft - boards, agriculture and industry be given definite information about the number of et and maintained, and the time avail-

efor they cz can cut their manpower a A : | seemed nothing else to do, no other way to save | remnant of liberty. Do ead, Vichy | » way of | b otf, hel

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"Why, It Would Be Unthinkable!

British union leaders on the maintenance of labor's

.Sode, suggests that the price was really little to pay

By Ludwell Denny

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Oct. 10~Brother 9 Dan Tobin, the president of ithe |

‘Teamsters’ union, who gets $30,000

a year, plus income taxes and ex- 3

penses, has had a twinge of con-

science or self-consciousness. It]:

would be hard to say which.

serving and protecting the health of the general president.”

must have known of. this decision and liked the idea,

for it could not have been carried without hig. consent. | | The resolution to buy the snug little bower was: 4

flowery and euldgistic and said in part that the union would “provide a suitable residence, fully furnished,

in Florida, where the general president and his wife |

may live at such times as the general president may be able to get away. from the active task of looking after the affairs of this international.”.

"Accordingly . .. A House Was Bought' A COMMITTEE WAS appointed with authority to

spend $100,000 for such residence and to convey it to | | Mr. Tobin, fully furnished. It was further resolved |= that his subjects, thousands of whom are unwilling |

captives, including girl clerks, should have the honor

of paying for the upkeep and maintenance of the | presidential palace, including all taxes and the wages |.

of his palace staff of servants. Accordingly, a house was bought in Miami Beach for $45,000, cash. If is not far from the winter mansions of Al Capone, whose brother-in-law, Danny Coughlin, is also in the selfless service of the poor Americanoiler; nor from similar mansions bought with the rewards of virtuous service by William E. Maloney, the international president of the Hoisting Engineers, and Max Pollok, alias Caldwell, the proprietor of a Chicago store clerks’ union of the A. F, of L., which came up with a shortage of $900,000 last year, Brother Tobin was “notified” of this action of the board of which he, himself, is the head man and he consulted ‘Judge Joseph Padway, the general counsel of the: union, and a prosperous and gifted mouthpiece for union racketeers, who looked up the law and decided that the board was strictly within its rights in spending the workers’ money for this purpose and for servants, upkeep and all.

Remember Judge Padway?

JUDGE PADWAY will be remembered as personal counsel for Brother George Scalise and as union counsel for the aromatic racket known as the Stage

Browne and Willie Bioff, now in: prison.

That Mr. Tobin could have been unaware of the resolution, and of the actual purchase of the house, seems impossible in view of the fact that he, himself, has been heard to say that he keeps a very Close watch on the union’s treasury. Nevertheless, there ‘is a note of touched surprise in a letter which he wrote on Aug. 18 to his colleague on the board, Brother John M. Gillespie, the secre-tary-treasurer, saying he was “aware” that the board had decided to “purchase a suitable home for the general president,” meaning himself. Then, ‘notwithstanding Padway's assurances and the fact that the deed had already been done, Brother Tobin, on Aug: 18, had a feeling that “cruel and unJust interpretation would be placed on my acceptance” and therefore ordered the little home .sold.

THEREUPON, FEELING EASIER in mind, Brother Tobin flew away “to foreign lands,” meaning England, “at the special request” of President Roosevelt, accompanied by Brother Padway, to confer with the

gains, ‘Brother Tobin's declination didn’t indicate that he thought himself unworthy of this generosity, but only that his acceptance would be cruelly misconstrued, which seems unthinkable. The teamsters’ official] journal, relating the epi-

for the guarding of the royal health, for the has more than $1,600,000 “in cash, lying idle in banks,” but not, it may be noted, in those issues of war bonds which Brother Tobin is constantly exhorting his subjects to buy with their spare wages.

Herriok: A Symbol

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. — Nothing has driven home to Americans the degradation: : of Vichy so much as the arrest of Edouard Herriot. Whether he is

in a concentration camp, as Berlin |:

and Zurich say, or ‘imprisoned: ih his own home, as Vichy’ insists, it is a violation. of Petain’s pledge—: just ‘as the once-trusted ‘marshal has betrayed so many = other solemn obligations. is the crime of the president of the chamdeputies .and former premier, that justifies -Petain. and Laval? They explain use of his attitude and the political agitahe is engaged.” His | “attitude” is ‘republic he swore to uphold. Snbiis the wurst orime inl the Salendar.

They Have Reason for Fear

HE 18 CAUTIOUS, plodding, prachioal, sow. | He

making up his mind and immiovable when 1t is made

up. He is not the symbol of Paris or. Vichy, but'ol oo} A

Last February the executive | board of his union decided to buy | Brother Tobin a winter home in| Florida for the purpose of “pre-|

Inasmuch as Brother |’ Tobin is the head of the general executive board, he |

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. . : . . SE . : The Hoosier Forum © 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“I THINK APOLOGY IS IN | ORDER TO TROLLEY MEN” By Elmer Taborn, 821 Roache st. I, too, wish to reply to Mr. Richard Thompson of 905 N. Grant st.

for the stategpnents he made concerning the trackless trolleys on Sept. 30th. Seems to me he did a plenty of griping unnecessarily called for. I've been riding the trackless trolleys since the first trolley ran on Riverside. I find the operators very congenial, more so I believe than I or Mr. Thompson would probably be if we were operating those cars. . I consider them very able drivers, eonsiderate of the motorist on the street, and extremely patient. After all they are just human beings. We should not expect any more courtesy than it's le for a man to give. an apology is in order. § 8 8 8 “NOTHING TO PREVENT THE WOOD BEING SOLD” By Milo L. Curts, 2546 Holt rd. ta For your further information in regard to my discharge . . . because of my letter in the Hoosier Forum concerning waste of wood at the new Allison building, the case is now in the hands of Mr. Trebohn of the war production office, Circle Tower building. . . . Incidentally, Mr. Trebohn told me there is nothing to prevent the waste wood being sold. . I realize ‘that some of the things I mention could readily enough be afterthoughts of someone and not the fault of the construction company. But I also know that some of them would have brought about a quick change of foreman or superintendent had the Job been on a contract basis. As far-as I ‘am corioertied, it yo h to'go further with this in your | By , you have my permission, though T have no desire for personal publicity. If the loss of this “job for: me ‘should result in ending the waste out there, I'll be satisfied.

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burning of waste wood. He reported that he had been _discharged from employment be-~. cause of the publication of the

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“ID KEEP QUIET UNTIL I ENEW WHAT IT'S ABOUT” | By Mrs. Flora Smickles, R. R. 1, Box kL I don’t believe in this arguing through the press but I feel like I want to say a few words to this Maddox. I don’t think he. knows just what he is talking about when he speaks of dictators. ; I don’t see how he can class Stalin with Hitler as we all know, or should know, tha¥ we owe a great deal to Stalin and the Red army. They are fighting for freedom for themselves, as well as for us. BeSides Stalin Hat No offer Sunny 1 slavery. Look at Hitler—all those people half starved, murdered and everything wicked and mean he can do. Hitler is the devil in per-

Russia was before Stalin took over. People were in slavery just like we fought here to do away with slavery. If I were people here I'd keep quiet until I knew what I was talking

® 8 = «IT WAS LEIF ERIKSON WHO. DISCOVERED AMERICA” Fant Comineres dumet, 3 Car rol

‘Once upon. a time there was a man named Columbus who thought he had discovered an easy way to India and who died in that belief.

Until he closed his eyes he hadn’t|]

the slightest ides that he had

visited a comparatively unknown continent, and so to speak made what seemed a discovery. The only thing he knew was that

he, was not the first to find land|

by going west over the Atlantic. That he knew, because the reports about the. voyages which Leif ‘Erikson and many, many- other. Norwegians had made: to Vinland: the} ‘Good were well known to all men of letters. Numerous accounts of the real discovery of America were kept in the library in Rome and other places where Columbus studied. His trip to Iceland a few years before his ‘first voyage to America

would certainly have supplied him| with all missing details about. the].

new world . which he mistook for India. For a good many years we have been . celebrating Columbus as the discoverer. of America, . Nobody claimed prior, rights, so we got used to the idea, just like we, not many centuries ago, were familiar with the idea that the earth was flat as a pancake and were ready to murder anybody who had the audacity to say it was round. - Now I have the audacity to declare that America was: discovered Erikson ‘and not by Columcourse being of Norweigian t myselt. and not.-of ‘Italian "blame me for makhero, just like an a pull for Columbus. you who have reices I have to confess 8 Chris was a Catholic. 't bother me at all why that should American. As a e didn’t have any he to be a Chriswas no other church. of course many prefer the ‘dark and handsome type, but know that’ gentleman prefer |

But seriously I 'think that it is| high time that we Americans paid| tribute: to: -Leif Erikson the dis-|:

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By Mrs. B. M. Edwards, 1115 N. Gale st.

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It’s kinda suggestive, It’s Share the Meat!” and it three

It's patriotic to share. It’s fair to share. - It's wise to share.

Some More and Some Less

THE SHARING business is arrived at from sev sources. Somebody made a survey in 1936 and fi that families with incomes of less than $500 averaged only 1% pounds of meat: per perso week, while families with incomes of more than a year averaged five pounds per person per week, Families with incomes between $500 and $5000 a year are apparently all right. So the idea is to make the family of I. Gottbucks eat only half as much meat, while the family of I.

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Got Plenty of Nothin’ will be encouraged to eat more’

meat to provide more nutrition and more muscle for more war work. The sharing theme comes in also in the fury ing of more meat to the army and navy which | Be it, and to the united nations people who are Having to get along on a pound a ‘week or less. :

What's in the Cards—

BUT IT 1S IN figuring things out so that you won't overeat on. your 2% pounds a week that the fun will come in. There must be no cheating. Two and a half pounds is 40 ounces. If you work a fives day week and figure on eating meat only on working days or going in for two meatless days a week, that's

half a pound a day.. Divide it by seven and you come

out with a scant six ounces a day. If you pack a boloney sandwich in your lunch that counts too. If you buy your lunch at a restaurant, the meat you buy there must be “included in your 2% pounds, so consequently you may soon exe pect to encounter the amazing spectacle of finding restaurants listing on their ‘menus the weights of the meat portions served. For instance, there might be an item reading: Pork chop, breaded Berey aux gratin,’ ig buerre, 3.45 oz. Club sandwich; chicken 10 o5., Bdoon So00000000y

02. Incidentally, ‘have’ you’ ever a: *adyburger? Soybean meal, ground up and made into a roll thas looks like sausage. How do you think you're going to like it? Youre going to like it.

A Wortans Viewpoint

By Mrs. in wl

the finest of them. all. It’s only a small showcase holding a few personal belongings of the woman who made all that great museum possible, Mrs. F. I. Phillips, mother. of the famous brothers whose names are known all over the world. Little, homey, intimate things they are—a soap dish with a bit of lye soap made by Mrs.” Phillips, the unfinished rag was working on when she died, the bedspread orated with endless rows of tatting, and the old, ¢ work basket, most poignant of items, . What. -féelings it evokes! ‘Brave still’ tripod it preserves the thread; pins, needles, egg. -and scissors used by an Iowa housewife long, long time ago.

More Precious Than Al'Riches!

WHILE HER moved over it did she dream it would be treasured in ‘a place 3s a monument

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